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811.
by viburnum 7y ago
Finnish has a unit of distance that means “distance a barking dog can be heard.” https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/peninkulma I like rural places fine but the constant barking kills me.
812.
by viburnum 7y ago
I kinda like pea protein, but you know what’s really great? Fresh peas! They’re delicious.
813.
by viburnum 7y ago
Here's the video of the question and answer part: https://www.banking.senate.gov/hearings/privacy-rights-and-d...
814.
A Novel Theory About Amazon’s Power(nymag.com)
2 points by viburnum 7y ago|1 comments
815.
by viburnum 7y ago
I swear the quietest place to live is a pretty narrow street in a medium density urban neighborhood. All the buildings and trees really deaden the sound. When I lived in the boonies there was always a wood chipper going somewhere or barkin
816.
by viburnum 7y ago
Well that is definitely not the title I submitted.
817.
Why falsificationism is false(necpluribusimpar.net)
54 points by viburnum 7y ago|87 comments
818.
by viburnum 7y ago
“Converting calories to gas, a bicycle gets about three thousand miles per gallon.” https://twitter.com/grescoe/status/1122883766207352832?s=21
819.
by viburnum 7y ago
Adam Tooze posted this on twitter just now: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5_zaDzWwAActB6?format=jpg&name=...
820.
by viburnum 7y ago
Atmospheric CO2 will be 800 in what, 30 years?
821.
by viburnum 7y ago
Ok, so if I’m anxious or depressed but I sleep the optimal number of hours, I’ll maximize longevity anyway?
822.
by viburnum 7y ago
That’s the crazy thing about 2008, when big banks were funding their operations with overnight loans from each other (and then lending to hedge funds at insane leverage ratios), all it took for a bank run to happen was to stop lending for a
823.
by viburnum 7y ago
Which conclusion?
824.
by viburnum 7y ago
I used be really interested in historica returns (especially Dimson, Marsh, and Staunton) until I learned that profits have as much to do with squeezing labor as anything else. If you want to predict future returns you need to know how badl
825.
by viburnum 7y ago
That you can measure stress response in blood cells doesn’t rule out that the disease is psychological in origin (although I doubt CFS is).
826.
by viburnum 8y ago
If you’re engineering to protect against fraud then maybe you would make them different sizes? Or only make one kind of part?
827.
by viburnum 8y ago
My guess is that distracted people just mirror what the person in front of them is doing. Like when you’re trying to change lanes and the person next to keeps matching your pace so you can’t get over either behind or in front of them.
828.
by viburnum 8y ago
I’m old enough to remember when SY and Pixies were new, and even as a music fan they sounded like a revolution. But within ten years it seemed normal, and ten years after that it was just boring. That’s just how music is. Still great bands
829.
by viburnum 8y ago
This is not true at all if you take his plays as a whole. Often his next play will take the opposite position from the one before.
830.
A Poem about Silicon Valley, Assembled from Quora Questions about Silicon Valley(splinternews.com)
2 points by viburnum 8y ago|0 comments
831.
by viburnum 8y ago
Whether or not it makes money, Uber is making cities more polluted and less safe already.
832.
by viburnum 8y ago
That’s not societal breakdown, that just means the inbred aristocracy doesn’t go back to antiquity. Society and its rulers are not the same thing.
833.
by viburnum 8y ago
Tesla’s cars are not especially energy efficient: https://cleantechnica.com/2018/06/30/what-are-the-most-effic...
834.
by viburnum 8y ago
Better to just ban cars completely.
835.
by viburnum 8y ago
Viner (at Chicago but predating the Chicago boys) made a list of Smith’s views that were contrary to laissez-faire. My favorite is “Encouragement of ‘the frequency and gaiety of publick diversions,’” which was meant to discourage people fro
836.
by viburnum 8y ago
Everybody just keep doing what you’re doing, because problems could be solved, hypothetically.
837.
by viburnum 8y ago
That’s the point, people are supposed to not get treatment. If you wanted people to get the treatment they need, then it would be free.
838.
by viburnum 8y ago
I discovered this about myself too. If I’m spending enough time with actual people I don’t care about my phone or social media.
839.
by viburnum 8y ago
Move the capital to Kansas City.
840.
by viburnum 8y ago
I just make everything like Smalltalk anyway so what’s the point.

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